Nintendo Switch Online adds Wario Land and three Game Boy titles

gamingJul 8, 202621732

Nintendo added Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, The Sword of Hope II and Fortified Zone to Nintendo Switch Online's Game Boy library today. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack members also received Dr. Mario & Puzzle League for Game Boy Advance. In Japan the GBA lineup includes Dr. Mario & Panel de Pon plus Tomato Adventure. These Game Boy updates are the first in several months; Nintendo added Mario vs. Donkey Kong for GBA in March for MAR10 Day and added Balloon Kid and Yoshi to the Game Boy library in February. The Expansion Pack add-on, required to play Game Boy Advance and Nintendo 64 titles on Switch Online, costs $49.99 per year.

Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror]

@nintendousa.bsky.social

These four classic games are now available to play! Game Boy for #NintendoSwitchOnline members: ☑️ Fortified Zone ☑️ Wario Land™: Super Mario Land™ 3 ☑️ The Sword of Hope II Game Boy Advance for Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion members: ☑️ Dr. Mario™ & Puzzle League

47610h ago

SolverShadz17

it took THIS LONG for wario land 1???

Oxnard Owlnard7

This is me, excited to play GBA Puzzle League for the first time. This is no joke. I'm very excited. I love every puzzle league!!

Nate the Deltarune Stan 🏳️‍🌈7

Took them god damn fucking long enough, this is the week of Wario Land

Axel Voss5

Friendly reminder that we got Super Mario Land OVER A YEAR IN. One of the original launch titles wasn't even a launch title for this.

2-Way_Intersection3

.....it took em this long for wario land 1?

shwag82.bsky.social3

Can you add monster party to the NES virtual console please I'll blow Mario in front of you

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AK76

Everyone asks when they'll add Mario Sunshine but no one asks when they'll finally drop Dragon Hopper and Zero Racers

Yakumono26

Japan also gets Tomato Adventure. Don't have much to say for datamine.

Ray Barnholt18

Dr. Mario/Puzzle League might be redundant on NSO but it is like a top 3 cart to keep plugged in a GB Micro

Starlight8

Guys it's been four fucking months where the fuck are the GameCube games

#DOITFORSHIIKO | Lillie Ver.Ka 🏳️‍⚧️7

EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND HOP ON DR. MARIO AND PUZZLE LEAGUE

Lui4

Darauf habe ich durchaus gewartet: Wario Land! Yippie!

romulus - Wario World🫯4

WDYM JAPAN GOT TOMATO ADVENTURE????????

Patrick Kulikowski3

Outside of Pokémon Blue, pretty sure I've dedicated the most time to Wario Land on my Game Boy Pocket as a kid. I think I gave a kid in my 4th grade class some lenticular Pokémon cards in exchange for Wario Land and TMNT: Fall of the Foot Clan. 😅

Kirbz2

what do you mean wario land wasn't already there that's one of THE game boy games

Juan Jo Kaz2

Ojalá pongan los demás Wario Land pronto. Excelentes juegos y raro que durante tanto tiempo solo estuviera Wario Land 4.

Nintendo of America

@nintendooamerica.bsky.social

Nintendo Switch 2 System, Nintendo Switch Online Membership, and a lack of self awareness required to utilize this title.

5220h ago

vozer 🎀

@vozer.cafe

love how sony and xbox have done nothing but push out constant bad news for fans, meanwhile nintendo is just in the corner like "eyyy.. heres fuckin wario land..."

338h ago

Gaming Hell

@sarahssowertty.bsky.social

New Game Boy games on Switch Online- Jaleco's top-down shooter Fortified Zone, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (finally!) and Kemco's adventure / dungeon crawler hybrid The Sword of Hope II. The GBA app gets Dr. Mario & Puzzle League too. (Japan gets all these plus Tomato Adventure on GBA)

The Nintendo Classics - Game Boy info screen for Fortified Zone, taken via the Switch's Screenshot button.

Fortified Zone
City Connection Released in: 1991
Number of players: 1-2

Originally released in 1991, this popular action shooter allows players to alternate between two characters. Fortified Zone brings four multi-room levels of heavy fire and explosions, as well as the mode SOUND BOY where you can listen to the music tracks outside of the action!

Enemy forces have created a gigantic fortress in a critical zone, and reports have been coming in that they are developing a powerful secret weapon! Secret agents MASATO KANZAKI and MIZUKI MAKIMURA have been dispatched to infiltrate the... fortress and venture into the heart of the complex to destroy it. MASATO and MIZUKI each have their own abilities, so they will need to tag-team their way through breaching the enemies' defenses.

Join these two in their mission through the Fortified Zone and destroy the threat!

223h ago

Kyle Hilliard

@kylehilliard.com

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 is crucially important to my video game upbringing. It’s one I don’t acknowledge enough. It’s possible I spent more hours replaying that game over and over as a child than I have all other 2D Mario games.

259h ago

VGC

@videogameschronicle.com

Wario Land and three more Game Boy classics hit Nintendo Switch Online today. vgc.news/news/wario-l...

162h ago

NSO Icon Alerts

@iconsnso.bsky.social

Play & Redeem: Kuru Kuru Kururin #NintendoSwitchOnline icons are here! They'll be available until August 3. #NintendoSwitch #NintendoSwitch2 * A Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription is required to claim them.

1417h ago

Tтeκ

@tony-ttek.bsky.social

Wait what the hell wdym wario land wasnt there and most importantly where are the gamecube games bruh LOL

129h ago

Reecee

@reecee.bsky.social

WARIO LAND, LET’S GOOOOOO!!! Dr. Mario + Puzzle League is good too (even though the og versions are already on NSO, I do like the GBA versions)

138h ago

Diggeh 💎⛏️

@diggeh.bsky.social

Thank you Switch Online for once again appealing specifically to me with obscure icons from Kuru Kuru Kururin! Interestingly the Helirin itself isn't here, and it's missing the rest of Kururin's siblings, but hey! They remembered! Wow!!! (I still want to play Kururin Paradise and Kururin Squash!)

Screenshot from Nintendo Switch Online featuring a Kuru Kuru Kururin event with five icons of characters from the game: Kururin, a chibi blue bird with goggles; Kururin's mother, a green bird with an apron; Teacher Hair, a white rabbit in a pilot outfit; Maririn, a pink bird with a heart antenna; Pikarin, a yellow bird with a thunderbolt antenna. Redeemable until August 3.

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Mitchell

@gamingmitch1990.bsky.social

Still no GameCube games but at least they finally added Wario Land and I don't think many people know this game but I love Fortified Zone it was always on of my favorite Game Boy games when I was a kid and it has one of my favorite GB soundtracks ☺️

94h ago

Remember 64 (Dave)

@remember64show.bsky.social

Wario Land is one of my most played games of all time since I got it in ‘93. Fantastic add! But like….where’s the N64 games…. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTr...

87h ago

Pokerninja2

@phdedede.bsky.social

why did it take so fucking long to release Wario Land 1

57h ago

Sonic Yoda

@sonicyoda.neocities.org

Please play the original Wario Land it's one of my favourite games ever

72h ago

shoogles1

Bizarre they had 3 before 1 and 2. Bizarre now they have 1 and 3 but not 2. How are we supposed to follow the story??

KayJoon1

Spotted that was added this morning, don't think I ever finished it but I definitely had a good time with it on my original Gameboy. I'll give it a play. 😁

Nick Wandelt

@nickwandeltmusic.bsky.social

Wario Land needs to make a comeback with a new game. Come on!

68h ago

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